Re: Something for Platonists (and the platonic)

From: CMR <jackogreen.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 07:29:25 -0700

> But in fact, the only thing that privileges the set of all
>computational
>operations that we see in nature, is that they are instantiated by
>the laws of physics. It is only through our knowledge of the physical
>world
>that we know of the di.erence between computable and not computable. So
>it's only through our laws of physics that the nature of computation can
>be understood. It can never be vice versa."

methinks it be just the inverse; the "laws" of fizziks emerge from
"underlying" computation, itself the result of initial rules (laws?)...

CMR

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Received on Tue Jun 17 2003 - 10:30:58 PDT